Lemington

Lemington
Lemington Town Hall
Location in Vermont
Lemington
Basic data
Foundation :	June 29, 1762
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Essex County
Coordinates :	44 ° 53 ′  N , 71 ° 35 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 53 ′  N , 71 ° 35 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	104 (as of 2010)
Population density :	1.1 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	92.0 km 2  (approx. 36 mi 2 ) of which 91.6 km 2  (approx. 35 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	534 m
Postcodes :	05903, 05905
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-39700
GNIS ID :	1462133
Website :	http://Vermont.gov

Lemington is a town in Essex County in the US state of Vermont . At the last census in 2010 it had a total of 104 inhabitants. It is part of the Berlin Micropolitan Statistical Area .

geography

Geographical location

Lemington is in northeast Essex County. The Connecticut River forms the eastern border with New Hampshire , several smaller tributaries of the Connecticut River such as the Willard Stream in the north drain the area of ​​the town. There are no major lakes in the town area. The surface is hilly, the highest point is the 973 m high Monadnock Mountain .

Neighboring communities

All distances are given as straight lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.

• North: Canaan , 4.3 km
• Northeast: Colebrook , 12 miles
• Southeast: Columbia , 5.4 mi
• Southwest: Bloomfield , 3.9 mi
• West: Lewis , 11 miles
• Northwest: Averill , 5.7 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in Lemington is between -11.7 ° C (11 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 18.3 ° C (65 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that the place is around 9 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. The snowfall between mid-October and mid-May is more than two meters, about twice as high as the average snow depth in the USA. The daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range of values ​​in the USA, between September and mid-December it is even significantly lower.

history

Town Office Lemington

The Grant for Lemington was given on June 29, 1762 with an area of ​​23,040 acres (about 93 km²) as one of the New Hampshire Grants by Benning Wentworth . Like several others, Samuel Averill from Connecticut received the grant. Another grant, also named after him, is the neighboring town of Averill. How the name of the town Lemington came about is unclear. The settlement took place mainly near the Connecticut River.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Lemington, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										31
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	52	132	139	183	124	187	207	191	222	227
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	204	138	145	133	131	105	112	120	108	102
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	107	104

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Covered Bridge between Columbia and Lemington

On the western side, Vermont State Route 102 runs from Canaan in the north to Brunswick in the south. There are few other streets in the town area. On the eastern side of the Connecticut River, US Highway 2 runs through Coös County in New Hampshire in a northerly direction.

Public facilities

The North Country Hospital & Health Care in Newport is the closest hospital to the town's residents.

education

Lemington is part of the Essex North Supervisory Union with Bloomfield, Brunswick, Canaan and Norton .

There is no school in Lemington. The closest are the Canaan Schools in Canaan. They offer classes from kindergarten through the 12th grade for around 200 pupils.

There is no library in Lemington. The next one is in Canaan.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Edward Dow (1820-1894), architect

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. Volume III p 102 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for the period up to 1840)
• Benjamin Homer Hall: History of Eastern Vermont . D. Appleton & Co., New York 1865 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Commons : Lemington, Vermont  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Profile of the community on the official portal www.Vermont.gov (English)
• Entry at VirtualVermont.com (English) ( Memento from October 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lemington in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed May 25, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Monadnock Mountain on Peakery.com , accessed May 25, 2017
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Lemington on the City Daty portal , accessed May 25, 2017
6. ^ Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical , p. 102 , accessed May 25, 2017
7. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
8. ^ Essex North Supervisory Union , accessed May 25, 2017
9. ^ Canaan Schools , accessed May 25, 2015